Set free

So if the Son sets you free, you are free indeed (John 8:36) but the enemy comes to steal kill and destroy.  However, the Bible says in John 10:10 that Jesus Christ came that we may have life and have it in full. By being set free, Jesus means that all our sins and guilt has been taken away. He died on the cross and took the sins with him to the grave but resurrected. This means that we are now free. However, some of us have not received the true freedom from their sins. This word has not found true meaning in their lives. 

So many times you have felt unworthy before God even after spending so much time in repentance. You may have always thought that you can never be forgiven. Maybe you were a fornicator before you knew Christ, a murder, a cheat, you may have hurt so many and wounded so many others before. Your name may have been; that liar or maybe that womanizer or gossiper. You many have performed 101 abortions or gave birth to babies and left them in the street. It doesn’t really matter anymore. Christ set you free.  If you have repented and accepted Christ, you are free. He does not condemn you anymore because he has washed you and cleansed you. The bible says that there is no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus, that the old is gone and the new has come (Romans 8:1-2). We are new creations, and Christ has set us free from the law of sin and death. 

You may have allowed guilt to eat you up and destroy your relationship with God. Guilt actually is usually a strategy of the enemy to bring us down. The enemy is always fighting us. He always wants us to see our past and make us feel unworthy of the love of Christ (the love of Christ for us is not defined by what we do. It is unconditional). This guilt can be too dangerous because it can cause us to go back to our past mistakes. However we need to realize that when Christ sets us free, He clears our record. The bible in Psalms 103:12 that as far as the east is from the west, that is how far our sins have been removed. To me, this means that I am completely forgiven and separated from my sins; the Lord has forgiven me and has made me new. We need to forgive ourselves because God already forgave us.

You need to experience true freedom from your past by realizing that all is gone, it is finished and the price for your sins was paid by Jesus on Calvary. You are not condemned but you are set free.

Happy Easter!